^^^^^^isnt' it amazing on what you can do if you make up the context and make baseless assumptions!

People don't go around lying and performing miracles.

Yes they do, what about all the people who have claimed to be the 2nd coming of jesus? How about all those people who claim to perform miracles on tv? The power of money has a great effect on people's faith.

?I can't recall Jesus being on TV. It seems his works carried on for thouands of peoples testimonies. True "For the love of money is the root of all evil"

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When the power of love, overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. – Jimi Hendrix

It seems that at least one forum member didn't get the hint the first time.

In accordance with rule 13 (Topicality), I would request that forum members please take discussion of Pascal's Wager to an appropriate section of the forum. Also, in accordance with rule 11 (Trolling), continued attempts to derail the thread - which includes attempts to "get the last word in" - are frowned upon.

1. 'If [Hillary Clinton] gets a race against John Edwards and Barack Obama, she's going to be the nominee. Gore is the only threat to her, then. ... Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I'll predict that right now.' -William Kristol, Fox News Sunday, Dec. 17, 2006

2. 'Peter writes: 'Should I be worried about Bear Stearns in terms of liquidity and get my money out of there?' No! No! No! Bear Stearns is fine! Do not take your money out. ... Bear Stearns is not in trouble. I mean, if anything they're more likely to be taken over. Don't move your money from Bear! That's just being silly! Don't be silly!' -Jim Cramer, responding to a viewer's e-mail on CNBC's Mad Money, March 11, 2008

3. '[In] reality the risks to maritime flows of oil are far smaller than is commonly assumed. First, tankers are much less vulnerable than conventional wisdom holds. Second, limited regional conflicts would be unlikely to seriously upset traffic, and terrorist attacks against shipping would have even less of an economic effect. Third, only a naval power of the United States' strength could seriously disrupt oil shipments.' -Dennis Blair and Kenneth Lieberthal, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2007

4. '[A]nyone who says we're in a recession, or heading into one-especially the worst one since the Great Depression-is making up his own private definition of 'recession.' -Donald Luskin, The Washington Post, Sept. 14, 2008

6. 'New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will enter the Presidential race in February, after it becomes clear which nominees will get the nod from the major parties. His multiple billions and organization will impress voters-and stun rivals. He'll look like the most viable third-party candidate since Teddy Roosevelt. But Bloomberg will come up short, as he comes in for withering attacks from both Democrats and Republicans. He and Clinton will split more than 50% of the votes, but Arizona's maverick senator, John McCain, will end up the country's next President.' –Business Week, Jan. 2, 2008

7. 'There is a real possibility of creating destructive theoretical anomalies such as miniature black holes, strangelets and deSitter space transitions. These events have the potential to fundamentally alter matter and destroy our planet.' -Walter Wagner, LHCDefense.org Foreign Policy: 't appears that we are still here.'

9. 'It starts with the taking over of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which has already happened. It goes on to the destruction of the Georgian armed forces, which is now happening. The third [development] will probably be the replacement of the elected government, which is pro-Western, with a puppet government, which will probably follow in a week or two.' -Charles Krauthammer, Fox News, Aug. 11, 2008

10. 'I believe the banking system has been stabilized. No one is asking themselves anymore, is there some major institution that might fail and that we would not be able to do anything about it.' -Henry Paulson on National Public Radio, Nov. 13, 2008

So anything you all wanna predict for 2009? Huh? Any morsel of clarity? Just wondering.

"When I was a child my mom put a picture up in my room of a chihuahua with big scary eyes, and I begged her to take it down. She said she couldn't, or the devil-clown under my bed would kill her." - Bug-Eyed Earl, Red Meat.

Nice! Well, technically the weatherman was right - it could not have been a hurricane, since the word hurricane is specific to TROPICAL cyclones. Lovely as Britain is, tropical it ain't.

Curious that both of these (your example and mine) should happen on October 15th? I'm sure there's a good meteoro-theological reason for it, though.

Probably the Jews fault as well, I should think.

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"When I was a child my mom put a picture up in my room of a chihuahua with big scary eyes, and I begged her to take it down. She said she couldn't, or the devil-clown under my bed would kill her." - Bug-Eyed Earl, Red Meat.